1. What happened to the American political system during the antebellum period?

[A] It came under the control of a business elite.
[B] It became more democratic.
[C] It fragmented into a multiple-party system.
[D] It came to look more and more like the British system.
[E] It collapsed.

2. What did President Jackson do in his "war" on the Bank of the United States?

[A] closed all branches of the Bank of the United States
[B] banned the use of specie in business transactions
[C] announced that all national fiscal policy would be made by the secretary of the treasury
[D] forced the nation to adopt a paper money system
[E] removed federal deposits from the Bank of the United States and deposited them in state banks

3. Which sect believed that Jesus was not divine but merely an exemplary human being?

[A] Revivalists
[B] Millerites
[C] Perfectionists
[D] Mormons
[E] Unitarians

4. The period of revivalism that swept the nation in the early years of the nineteenth century is known as the

[A] Second Great Awakening.
[B] Methodist Rebirth.
[C] Camp Meeting Era.
[D] Democratic Vistas.
[E] Great National Circuit Ride.

5. Which of the following statements best captures the attitude of antebellum-Americans about technology?: 

[A] They believed that technology was democratic and would help everyone.
[B] They believed that technology was a force for positive change.
[C] They believed that technology was God's chosen instrument of progress.
[D] They believed that technology would help to make up for a labor shortage.
[E] All of these

6. What medical development greatly advanced the image of surgeons and the success of health care in the decades before the Civil War?

A) The development of anesthesia
B) The discovery of the cause of epidemics
C) The development of new varieties of surgical steel that resulted in sharper scalpels
D) The realization of the importance of cleanliness
E) All of these

7. The belief that bumps on the skull reveal an individual's personality is called?

A) hydropathy.
B) phrenology.
C) miasm.
D) Grahamism.

8. Why was P.T. Barnum a phenomenal success?:

A) He had a genius for publicity
B) He provided safe family entertainment
C) He tapped the public's curiosity about natural wonders
D) All of the above

9. All of the following were prominent New England writers identified with the American Renaissance EXCEPT:

A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
C) P.T Barnum
D) Henry David Thoreau